Re: [opensuse] Talking about Linux usage.....this in from Lightscribe.

[John Layt]

On Friday 25 January 2008, Mike wrote:
> On Friday 25 January 2008 20:08, Fred A. Miller wrote:
> > LightScribe is just starting support for Linux, and we apologize for
> > the limited support.
> >
> > At this point, the only applications available for Linux are the
> > LightScribe Simple Labeler and LaCie 4L. LightScribe has released a
> > public SDK for Linux and would really like to see some Linux
> > developers pick up and use our SDK and start creating some labeling
> > applications. Again, I apologize for the limited support.
>
> Now wouldn't that be a nice addition to K3b.. Wish I could program.
>
> Mike
>

Send a feature request to the author, I'm sure he would be keen to add it.

John.
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Re: [opensuse] Problems with KDE-4.0

[John Layt]

On Sunday 13 January 2008, Frank Fiene wrote:
> I've installed version 4.0 from
>
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4/openSUSE_10.3/
>
> but main programs don't work.
>
> So there is no Kmail, kopete has no services, i cannot scan my music
> files with amarok on a network drive. Amarok has no mysql support and
> so on and so on!
>
> Many problems, also i cannot change my kicker setup, there is only this
> ugly taskbar with this big icons. Icons on desktop are not aligned.
>
> Any other?

KMail 4 (and all the PIM module apps) will not be released until 4.1, carry on 
using KMail 3 instead.

Amarok 4 is not even part of the main KDE project and have their own release 
schedule, Amarok 2 is still at least 3 to 6 months away.  Continue using 
Amarok 1 instead.

Kopete, dunno, works fine for me with most services available (there, I said 
it).  Kopete developers have stated this is jut a quick port with full new 
version coming in 4.1.

Kicker is not kicker anymore, its Plasma, and it has been widely advertised 
that the config toolbox is not ready for it yet, expect it in 4.0.1 or 4.0.2.

All officially released apps are working fine for me (there, said it again).  
The apps and the libraries are in great shape, the desktop just needs a 
little more polish.  This has all been widely advertised that 4.0 would not 
bee feature equivalent to 3.5.8, if you can't cope with a 0.0 release then 
stick with the stable 3 branch.

John.

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Re: [opensuse] asus Eee mini laptop

[John Layt]

On Saturday 12 January 2008, James Tremblay wrote:
> Hey guys Anybody try to get opensuse running on one of these yet?
> I want to try getting SLED on one. Any thoughts?
> JT
>

No, not yet, I haven't heard of any efforts over at eeeuser.com, nor
do I have the time to play to make it happen.  I'm having to use
eeeXububtu until such time as I hear of someone who's sorted it.  The
main areas needing patching are the wireless and acpi modules, and
various power and disk manage tweaks to minimise power use and SSD
writes.

Cheers!

John.

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Re: [opensuse] USB Scanner recommendation?

[John Layt]

On Thursday 22 November 2007, Lenz Grimmer wrote:
> Does anybody have a recommendation for a flatbed scanner, connected via
> USB2 that works flawlessly with Linux (openSUSE 10.3 in particular) and
> is still on sale (especially in Europe/Germany)?

Almost anything from HP will be supported, except their very cheapest models 
which cut a few corners.  They're the gold standard for manufacturer based 
printer & scanner support under linux.

Epson reportedly also has fairly good support.

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Re: [opensuse] Asus eee

[John Layt]

On Thursday 15 November 2007, G T Smith wrote:
> Dave Howorth wrote:
> > It's late and I'm probably confused but if there's a driver for one
> > Linux version doesn't it work for all?  GPL and all that. Or at least
> > ABI compatibility.
> >
> > Curiously, Dave
>
> I would suspect the modules concerned to be closed source and compiled
> against particular versions of the libraries with particular versions of
> compiler. And we have all come across the situation of library or
> compiler mismatch that means that something will not work even it it is
> using the same API.
>

The source s available, but are new that they're apparently only in the 
development versions of the drivers, they just haven't been released yet.

It's a bit of a buzz to look in the manual for a new laptop and see the GPL in 
all its glory :-)  Then to boot straight from the box into Linux...

John.

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Re: [opensuse] Asus eee

[John Layt]

On Wednesday 14 November 2007, G T Smith wrote:
> Considering that the machine comes with Xandros preinstalled and has a
> rather special hardware setup; which I would assume that this copy of
> Xandros is optimised for, and ASUS are committed to to support; I would
> wonder why anyone would want to this, except out of a sense of adventure.
>
> I suspect that installing openSuSE might not be exactly wise or easy
> (for a start one would probably have to build and debug a special
> version of the Kernel). Installing KDE4 in its current reported status
> would be seriously adventurous on this hardware... (though there is a
> good argument for a special handheld and sub-micro version of SuSE).
>
> I would intrigued to hear the results of this experiment if anyone has
> attempted it...

Well, the simplified Xandros will get a run for a week or so, but part of my 
excuse for buying is I hack on KDE4 (nothing major, but it fills the time) so 
I'm eager to see how well we cope with the form factor, especially as Plasma 
was designed with this sort of thing in mind.  KDE3 applications are a major 
part of the eee, and I know they've had to hack some of the dialogs to fit 
the screen size, so I'd like to see what we can do in KDE4 to make things 
easier.

So Xandros isn't a long term option for that, and I've heard the Kubuntu KDE4 
packages may not be as good as the openSuse ones, so the green one will get a 
run, even if only a dual boot from flash.  I don't think I'll try compiling 
KDE4 on it :-)

But yeah, it's the wireless and camera that seem the biggest issue, but 
NDISwrapper apparently works and I can cope without a camera if needs be.

John.

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[opensuse] Asus eee

[John Layt]

So, anyone tried putting 10.3 on an Asus eee yet?  Does it work without much 
hacking?  I'm thinking of going with a KDE4 only install :-)

John.

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Re: [opensuse] libdvdcss gone?

[John Layt]

On Friday 26 October 2007, Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> After spending lots of money for David Gilmour's new dvd I realised that
> I can't find libdvdcss to install. I have the Packman sources added in
> YaST and also googled a while, no luck.

You need the vlc repository for that.  If in 10.3, use the Yast Add Community 
Repositories tool, otherwise search teh wiki for it.

John.

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Re: [opensuse] Kino

[John Layt]

On Monday 08 October 2007, Bob wrote:
> In 10.2 I used to use kino for video editing, but I can't find it in the
> OSS/non-OSS/Packman repositories for 10.3.
>
> Anyone know where I could find it, or another, similar program?
> --
> Bob

Not sure where it has gone, but you could try kdenlive in Packman, which the 
Kino developer is also working on.  Kino only has a couple more small updates 
left before he stops developing it any further, kdenlive is the future.

John.

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Re: [opensuse] subpixel hinting: why not out of the box?

[John Layt]

On Monday 08 October 2007, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> Why on earth is this not included in the default out of the box
> installation?

Why on earth isn't it in Packman, VLC, or anther community repository with all 
the other slightly dodgy packages?  DeCSS, Codecs, MP3, all things that are 
clearly illegal in some jurisdictions seem to be OK to risk, but a possible 
patent infringement on fonts hinting in the USA isn't?

John.

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Re: [opensuse] Kstars in 10.3?

[John Layt]

On Sunday 07 October 2007, James Knott wrote:
> Is Kstars available in OpenSUSE 10.3?  I can't seem to find it.
>
> tnx jk
>
> --
> Use OpenOffice.org 


KDE3 version works fine here.  Install kdeedu3 from the Main OSS repository.  
Running 4 from svn, s can't comment on that.

John.

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Re: [opensuse] SUSE 10.3

[John Layt]

On Saturday 06 October 2007, Adam Jimerson wrote:
> I know, I loaded up kmahjongg and it looks ugly for the most part.  Other
> wise I do like openSUSE 10.3, good job build team and anyone else who
> worked on this release.

Ugly?  How so?  As in the artwork for the tiles (which you can switch)?  Or 
the normal gui elements?

John.

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Re: [opensuse] SUSE 10.3

[John Layt]

On Saturday 06 October 2007, James Knott wrote:
> I've just installed SUSE 10.3 on one computer and so far it looks nice
> and seems faster than 10.2.
>
> I also tried that KDE 4 preview.  Yuck!!!  I certainly hope that's not
> what KDE 4 is supposed to look like.  It's terrible!!!

Anything in particular you don't like?  Is this the sample apps, or the whole 
desktop?  Ifthe latter, then it's still under heavy developement, if the 
former, well you'll just have to live with it :-)

John.

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Re: [opensuse] Community repositories URL in 10.3

[John Layt]

On Friday 05 October 2007, Christian Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I "upgraded" from Factory to 10.3 and I wanted to try out the new Community
> Repositories in yast. But it gives me: No product URL defined to download
> list of repositories from.
>
> Where do I enter the URL and what would it look like?
>
> Thanks
>
> Chris


In Yast, try the 'Community Repositories' tool to automatically add the main 
repositories, Packman, VLC, and various Build System repositories.  Probably 
best to remove all other repositories first to save duplication.

John.

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Re: [opensuse] Laptop embedded Webcam

[John Layt]

On Sunday 30 September 2007, John Layt wrote:
> On Sunday 30 September 2007, Andrés Cosa wrote:
> > uvcvideo: Failed to query (1) UVC control 2 (unit 0) : -110 (exp. 26).
> > uvcvideo: Failed to initialize the device (-5).
>
> There's the root of the problem, the camera is not initialising, so no app
> will work.  You need to visit the uvc driver website
> http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/ to check their support documentation or e-mail
> their support list.
>
> John.

P.S. What version suse and what kernel?  The more recent the kernel, the more 
recent your driver and the more likely it is to work...

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Re: [opensuse] Laptop embedded Webcam

[John Layt]

On Sunday 30 September 2007, Andrés Cosa wrote:
> uvcvideo: Failed to query (1) UVC control 2 (unit 0) : -110 (exp. 26).
> uvcvideo: Failed to initialize the device (-5).

There's the root of the problem, the camera is not initialising, so no app 
will work.  You need to visit the uvc driver website 
http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/ to check their support documentation or e-mail 
their support list.

John.

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Re: [opensuse] What USB Webcamera to use with OpenSUSE10.2 ?

[John Layt]

On Sunday 09 September 2007, joe wrote:
> I picked up a "Logitech Quickcam Chat" recently at a very reasonable cost,
> and it works for me in kopete - not in aim, but I've tested it in yahoo
> chat, and it's said to work with msn chat as well.
>
> Joe
>

I have a Logitech Quickcam Communicate STX which works well, great picture 
quality.  Most Logitechs work well (but with notable exceptions).

The best website to check for the status of most webcams is 
http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html.  This is the home of the spca driver 
which supports a lot, but also lists most other popular cams/drivers and 
provides links to each projects page.  Another major driver is 
http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/ for more recent cams.

Just remember that kopete (and all linux clients) only supports sending the 
webcam picture, not the sound.  Skype currently only supports sound and not 
video, so a combination of the two gets a strange out of sync experience :-)  
OpenWengo supports video and sound via SIP, but not many people use SIP, and 
it's not in the openSuse repos either.

John.

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[opensuse] Xephyr, xauth, etc, under 10.3

[John Layt]

Hi,

I'm having a few issues getting Xephyr working on 10.3 for my KDE4 development 
environment.

Here's what I'm doing:

  sudo xhost +local:kde-devel
  su - kde-devel
  Xephyr :1 -screen 1024x768 &
  export DISPLAY=:1
  bin/startkde &

Which gets me:

  AUDIT: Tue Sep  4 19:40:14 2007: 18007 Xephyr: client 1 rejected from local
host (uid 1001)
  AUDIT: Tue Sep  4 19:40:14 2007: 18007 Xephyr: client 1 rejected from local
host (uid 1001)
  No protocol specified
  xsetroot:  unable to open display ':1'

etc...

This proceedure was working for me in Kubuntu a short while back, so I guess 
there's something about openSuse's setup that's different.  I've tried 
googling, but nothing springs to light.  Any ideas?

Cheers!

John.

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Re: [opensuse] Updates and other s/w management on 10.3

[John Layt]

On Saturday 01 September 2007, Robert Lewis wrote:
> Why is it necessary to build a new database of
> patches every time I choose another YaST
> s/w function?
>
> The delays waiting to update or pick a new
> package are quite a time hit.
>
> Even if these processes just completed and
> I leave YaST an re-enter I have to wait again
> a very long time before I can choose another
> package.  Switching between "Online Update"
> and "Software Management" does the same
> thing over again.
>
> Can't a system be designed to at least give
> the user the illusion that it is going faster?
>
> Cheers,
> Bob

Not sure if this is your problem, but in Yast in Software Repositories, you 
can turn off Auto Update for the repositories, this is what forces zypper to 
re-download the full repo listing from the server everytime you so much as 
breathe.  Instead it will just reload them from cache, which is quicker but 
still annoying.  

I've used every other major package management system out there, and I don't 
recall any of them being so slow, not even urpmi.  I'm giving it some 
patience as it is under heavy development, but it had better improve by the 
RC's.  Another thing, I hope they remember the ACID concepts before they 
finish zypper off, it really should complete all the package downloads first 
before trying to apply any packages, otherwise a download failure could leave 
you with a broken system.

John.
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Re: [opensuse] Updates and other s/w management on 10.3

[John Layt]

On Sunday 02 September 2007, Robert Lewis wrote:
> This window is not movable and obscures other ICONS.

If you single click on the window (well popup really) it goes away but it 
carries on working in the background.  Double click the system tray icon to 
show the status again.

> When it finishes the Blue icon has a big question mark
> that says: "Unable to check whether upgrades are available".
> Is this expected behavior for the beta?

Yeah, some days it works, some days it doesn't, typical early beta...

John.
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Re: [opensuse] 10.3 Beta 1 - Yast installer issues?

[John Layt]

Some new zypper/libzypp/yast2 packages uploaded today
(along with a 1000 others), installed with rpm -Uvh
but still broken...  So stay well away from that
upgrade button :-)

John.



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Re: [opensuse] 10.3 Beta 1 - Yast installer issues?

[John Layt]

--- Benji Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes the version of libzypp in factory/svn is
> currently pretty broken,
> and does indeed cause this behaviour.
> 
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=301676
> 
> and I see you filed
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=301682
> 
> _
> Benjamin Weber

Didn't see your bug report...

Anyway, I don't think it is libzypper itself, as there
was definitely 1 time where I saw it delete libzypper
itself and the whole thing segfaulted.  So could be in
Zypper in Yast2.  Alternatively, there was one update
on Friday night, and another lot on Saturday morning,
so perhaps the earlier update did it?  Well, I'm not
about to try it again to find out :-)

John.



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Re: [opensuse] 10.3 Beta 1 - Yast installer issues?

[John Layt]

Yeah, i hit the libzypper problem too.  First couple
of times too many things had been deleted to be
salvageable so had to full reinstall.  Next 2 times
was able to rescue it, first by downloading and
installing libzypper, second by compiling and
installing libbz2 from source.

I've been trawling through bugzilla to see if anyone
has reported it yet, but wanted to confirm it just
wasn't a newbie mistake.  All the other bugs I've hit
are already there so I guess it's time to add this
one.

Cheers!

John.

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Re: [opensuse] 10.3 Beta 2 - Yast installer issues?

[John Layt]

A bit of testing confirms that I'm right, Yast is
deleting the installed files first.  For example, I
just tried to upgrade a few rpms, including libbz2. 
So the installer deletes libbz2, then tries to install
the new rpm, but fails because libbz2.so.1 is missing
so it can't unpack it.  Ouch!

Also, the full error message when the delete fails
makes it clear that it is an rpm error from trying to
remove the actual package files.

John.

--- John Layt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Up to this morning, Yast would happily apply
> upgrades
> as rpm upgrades.  After applying the latest Yast
> version, it now appears to be applying upgrades as a
> delete then an install.  I'm basing this on what I
> think is the new appearance in the Yast update
> progress listing of lines of 'Deleting xxx' that
> delete all the packages selected for upgrade,
> followed
> by the downloads and installs.  Now, that could just
> be deleting the rpm files from cache, in which case
> the message needs to be changed to something less
> scary, but I think it does delete the installed
> package.  Trouble here is that if there is then a
> problem with the download or install, like I had 3
> times running, your system can be seriously borked
> with important files deleted and not yet replaced. 
> It's also not helped by the Abort and Cancel buttons
> not working properly when a problem is reported, or
> that network issues don't even return an error
> message
> and give you the chance to skip, your install is
> automatically aborted and you're dumped back to Yast
> with a borked system, or that trying to reapply
> failed
> installs re-downloads everything again (this was a
> problem yesterday, today you don't get there as you
> get error messages that the delete failed, and the
> skip abort buttons get all random on you).
> 
> Has anyone else seen this, or am I way off-base
> here?




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[opensuse] 10.3 Beta 2 - Yast installer issues?

[John Layt]

Hi,

Been messing around with beta 1 for the last couple of
days evaluating it as a replacement for my ailing
Kubuntu system, mostly works well, runs fast.  However
I managed to hose my test install 3 times today while
trying to upgrade packages using Yast.  I may be
totally wrong in this, seeing as I'm a Suse newbie
(but 10 year linux user/developer), but I'll float it
anyway as it looks pretty lethel to me.

Up to this morning, Yast would happily apply upgrades
as rpm upgrades.  After applying the latest Yast
version, it now appears to be applying upgrades as a
delete then an install.  I'm basing this on what I
think is the new appearance in the Yast update
progress listing of lines of 'Deleting xxx' that
delete all the packages selected for upgrade, followed
by the downloads and installs.  Now, that could just
be deleting the rpm files from cache, in which case
the message needs to be changed to something less
scary, but I think it does delete the installed
package.  Trouble here is that if there is then a
problem with the download or install, like I had 3
times running, your system can be seriously borked
with important files deleted and not yet replaced. 
It's also not helped by the Abort and Cancel buttons
not working properly when a problem is reported, or
that network issues don't even return an error message
and give you the chance to skip, your install is
automatically aborted and you're dumped back to Yast
with a borked system, or that trying to reapply failed
installs re-downloads everything again (this was a
problem yesterday, today you don't get there as you
get error messages that the delete failed, and the
skip abort buttons get all random on you).

Has anyone else seen this, or am I way off-base here?

Having been through the KDE CD installer about 5 or 6
times now, I spotted a couple of other things, the
main one being you can't change CD's in the actual
install step, and pre-added online repos not being
used or remembered.

Cheers!

John.




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